It's obvious this guy had little experience skiing, I don't understand how he thought using a parachute and snowplowing straight down the thing was a good idea instead of traversing or using the techniques some french guys had been creating around the same time.
He seemed to have no idea how to self-arrest either, it's a miracle he didn't die.
[QUOTE=draugur;42875759]So, how does it end?[/QUOTE]
iirc he eventually came too a stop and walked the rest of the way down. This is the end of an hour plus film, I watched like 15 minutes before I got tired of him talking about zen and shit.
It's mostly ice, it's really difficult to stop on ice, hence the parachute.
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[QUOTE=Articsledder;42875768]It's obvious this guy had little experience skiing, I don't understand how he thought using a parachute and snowplowing straight down the thing was a good idea instead of traversing or using the techniques some french guys had been creating around the same time.
He seemed to have no idea how to self-arrest either, it's a miracle he didn't die.
iirc he eventually came too a stop and walked the rest of the way down. This is the end of an hour plus film, I watched like 15 minutes before I got tired of him talking about zen and shit.[/QUOTE]
He must be extremely rich to do something like this, easy for him to talk about "zen" stuff.
What decade is this from? Seems like it couldn't be from any earlier than maybe the early 80s or at least 70s.
Cool idea, not-so-cool execution I suppose.
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;42877686]It's mostly ice, it's really difficult to stop on ice, hence the parachute.
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He must be extremely rich to do something like this, easy for him to talk about "zen" stuff.[/QUOTE]
A parachute is not the answer in a situation like that, and he probably could have made it all the way down had he not just tried to go straight down using it too slow him self.
change the tag
2:40 onwards looks to me as if he's being chased by a giant eye ball.
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